Curbside check-in moves as Hobby work continues

Published 10:05 pm, Friday, March 30, 2012

A pavement replacement project at Hobby Airport is expected to last until fall.

A pavement replacement project at Hobby Airport is expected to last until fall.

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Curbside check-in moves as Hobby work continues

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On Tuesday morning, Southwest Airlines' curbside check-in at Hobby Airport will move back to the upper-level passenger drop-off ramp as construction work continues.

In late October, curbside check-in moved temporarily to the lower-level roadway, where arriving passengers are picked up. The move was to accommodate a pavement replacement project that has involved removing and replacing the concrete sections of the U-shaped passenger drop-off ramp, which loops from an upper-level roadway and sits over the baggage claim area.

Although departing passengers who want to check in curbside will again do so on the upper level, the U-ramp will remain closed to all vehicular traffic for the remainder of the project, which is expected to last until fall. This means passengers who are dropped off on the upper-level roadway will have to walk to the U-ramp to reach the curbside check-in location and the ticket counter lobby on that level.

The two sets of doors on the west end of the U-ramp by Southwest's curbside check-in - which are in front of Southwest's ticket counter in the main lobby - will also reopen Tuesday. The doors farther east on the U-ramp, in front of ticket counters for AirTran Airways, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines and JetBlue Airways, will remain closed.

Vehicles dropping off passengers will still drive through a portion of the parking garage to get to the passenger drop-off area, Houston Airport System spokeswoman Darian Ward said.